A methodological contribution

Advising means helping learners to express their needs and define their learning objectives. It means enabling them to prioritise their objectives and then to spread them out over time, it means offering them materials on which they can work and then not just offering them materials but enabling them to develop criteria for choosing from among these materials, offering them ways of doing things, strategies so that they can make the most of their documents. It means supporting them throughout their learning process.

It also means understanding the learner’s project, listening to their doubts and motivating them, because motivation fades over time on courses that last a few months.
During the meetings, the advice interviews, we also show the learner the different tools they can use to exploit a document, such as the Internet, how to use a bilingual dictionary, a unilingual dictionary, how to use a corpus, these are tools that also enable them to work and that will be useful during the course, so during the advice interviews we also do this kind of thing.